National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre saw compensation jump more than $4 million as revenue soared

President Trump with NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre in the White House last week. (MICHAEL REYNOLDS / POOL/EPA)

National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre is making a killing.

The gun group leader saw a jump of more than $4 million in compensation between 2014 and 2015, according to a tax form obtained by the Washington Post.

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The NRA also saw a spike of $26 million in revenue during that time, shooting its total gross revenue past $336 million, the documents show.

According to its latest 990 tax form, LaPierre made $5,110,985 in annual compensation between Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2015.

The year before, he made $985,885.

Most of LaPierre's new cash stockpile came from payout of a $3.7 million retirement plan. He also saw his salary rise to $1,090,515, and got a $150,000 bonus.

"This is an employee funded deferred compensation plan and the $3.7 million distribution to Wayne LaPierre was required by federal law and properly reported," NRA Executive Vice President Allan Cors said in a statement to the Post.

The NRA only saw significant drops in its contributions, which fell from $103 million in 2014 to $95 million in 2015.

LaPierre's loaded compensation is the biggest pay bump he has seen in years. Previous 990 forms show LaPierre's salary hover around $985,000 between 2012 and 2014, rising only several hundred dollars in that time.

The most recent tax forms cover the year before the NRA and LaPierre came under renewed scrutiny as a series of mass shootings besieged America, including attacks in Charleston, San Bernardino and Oregon's Umpqua Community College. Many of the high-profile shootings led to spikes in gun sales and lobbying.

In 2016, the year of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history — Omar Mateen's Pulse nightclub rampage in Orlando — Americans bought 27 million guns, an all-time high for one year.

LaPierre last week cozied up with President Trump at the White House as part of a conservative coalition supporting Trump's right-leaning Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch.